Donovan Dijak Talks Almost Being Part Of The Men’s Survivor Series Elimination Match In 2019, Believes His Spot Was Taken By Gunther

Donovan Dijak talks about almost being part of the Men’s Survivor Series Elimination Match back in 2019.

At Survivor Series 2019, NXT would join the brand warfare against SmackDown and RAW. Amongst the men’s team for NXT at the event, Gunther would feature and would lose relatively quickly, being one of the first names eliminated from the bout.

While speaking to Jeremy Lambert and SP3 on Fightful’s In The Weeds, Donovan Dijak spoke about Survivor Series 2019 and NXT’s team against RAW and SmackDown.

“I think I’m on record of saying this before, that was all built to Survivor Series where NXT like won the Survivor Series or whatever. That was like a big moment for us and whatever, I was brought in, not brought in- I mean our show was like the night before so I was there anyway, but I was like booked for that Survivor Series show and I assumed it was to be on the Survivor Series team, but they didn’t completely finish booking the teams until that day and unfortunately for me and obviously fortunately for him I think my spot was taken by Walter at the time. Because Walter wasn’t full-time with Black and Gold. At that time, he was kind of coming in from NXT UK, and he was the, the person who got that final spot. I think most people, and probably with the benefit of hindsight, the way it went down, I think people probably would have preferred me in that spot simply because Walter had like a quick exchange and then got rolled up and people were like, why did Walter (lose)? Cause he’s this big, you know, dominating- He still is. He’s still on top and he just kills everyone and wins championships and stuff. So people were very confused that he had this quick interaction where he got (rolled up), and I was like, I was like did you need a guy to get rolled up? Cause that was, that was me. I was sitting right there in the back. I had my gear and everything. So yeah, I wasn’t, I wasn’t thrilled about that, but he probably wasn’t either. So yeah, I kind of wish that was different because that, that would have been my first and only pay-per-view appearance in WWE. So that would have been pretty sweet for me, but yeah, it didn’t happen. So, you know, all’s well that ends well.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Dijak spoke about NXT coaches reactions to his social media spat with Kenny Omega. You can read more about that here.